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Date:      Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:06:06 -0600 (CST)
From:      Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, peter@vfemail.net
Subject:   Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries
Message-ID:  <201103092006.p29K664k013470@mail.r-bonomi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110309152546.54D93106564A@hub.freebsd.org>

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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Wed Mar  9 10:40:23 2011
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:57:03 -0500
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> From: peter@vfemail.net
> Subject: Nonsensical Web Log Entries
>
>
> I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical 
> entries like these caught my attention:
>
> 124.226.181.80 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:49:58 -0500] "GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.0" 301 294 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
> 123.10.97.102 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:50:01 -0500] "GET http://makeabank.com/faq.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 3485 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" 
> 115.225.166.2 - > - [09/Mar/2011:09:50:04 -0500] "GET http://join1.winhundred.com/affiliate/link.php?ref=35840&productid=7178 HTTP/1.0" 404 3485 "http://www.wingclips.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
> 114.97.197.184 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:50:15 -0500] "GET http://www.tosunmail.com/proxyheader.php HTTP/1.0" 301 313 "http://www.cashsoldier.com/VerifyerLevel.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
>
> Is my FreeBSD box serving as some kind of Web proxy?

Your box is _not_ doing the proxying.  that's why it's signalling errors
for those requests.

The perpetrators are _hoping_ you are running a misconfigured proxying front-
end.





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